Wisdom and Age: The Adventures of Later Life

This is a series of lectures by leaders in the field of Transpersonal Psychology. Names such as Claudio Naranjo, Gay Gaer Luce, Joan Halifax, Joseph Meeker, Bill Bridges, Ben Weininger, Nevitt Sanford, Elizabeth Leonie Simpson, Maurice Friedman, Richard Wiseman, Christine Downing, Margaret Keys, Charles Garfield, and John-Raphael Staude are quite well known in print and among professional contemporaries.Back Cover:The purpose of this book is to provide people with a better understanding of the aging process. Each season of life has its own particular character, value and developmental tasks. Wisdom and Age brings together contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy, religion, psychology, anthropology, ecology, history and literature to provide a broad context for understanding the richness, complexity and ambiguity of the aging process. Reading this book, which was designed for young people as well as those in mid-life and older, people can develop a more positive attitude toward both the elderly and their own later years.This book is built on the premise that he humanities perspective can add a dimension of wisdom to our growing scientific understanding of aging. Belief in immortality or in the symbolic immortality of cultures gives people something to live for in our times of rapid social and cultural change.

John-Raphael Staude has taught and studied European history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology in Paris and Heidelberg. He received his Ph.D. in History form the University of California at Berkeley. After teaching history and sociology for many years, he undertook clinical training at the Jung Institute in Zurich and later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. Besides numerous articles, his publications include Max Scheler, Humanistic Society, Consciousness and Creativity, and The Adult Development of C.G. Jung